The Romanovs and Mr. Gibbes: The Story of the Englishman Who Taught the Children of the Last Tsar - Hardcover

Welch, Frances

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 190409516X ISBN 13: 9781904095163

Verlag: Short Books Ltd, 2002

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Reseña del editor:

Sydney Gibbes was appointed tutor to the children of Tsar Nicholas II in 1908 and over the next six years lived as one of the family in the royal palace. A demanding, fastidious man, he found the Romanovs bizarrely devout and insular. Yet he came to hold them all in deep affection. In this biography, Frances Welch draws on unpublished material, including Gibbes' letters and diaries, to throw light on the tragic Romanov story, telling it from the English teacher's point of view. The catastrophe, when it came, permanently affected Gibbes. He was a vital eye-witness to events - one of the first to gain entry into "The House of Special Purpose" after the assassination - and spent the rest of his life trying to vindicate the Tsar's memory.

Biografía del autor:

Frances Welch has written about the Romanovs for the Sunday Telegraph and Granta. She is co-author of Memories of Revolution: Russian Women Remember (Routledge, 1993). She lives in Aldeburgh, Suffolk.

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• Verlag: Short Books Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 190409516X
• ISBN 13: 9781904095163
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 125